Such big news is actually underwhelming — Yahoo and Microsoft are two companies fighting to stay relevant. Though I remember back in the day when everyone and their mother used Yahoo as their primary search engine—those days are long gone. It's no surprise Yahoo was suffering, what with Google's search engine behemoth and Yahoo's other services, like instant messaging and music (which shut down yesterday), long ago eclipsed by other services. But it can't be completely unused, so I ask you: Whether it's for Internet searching, IMing, or anything else, do you Yahoo?

I have multiple Yahoo addresses. I customize the pages and have one for news & politics, one for shopping, one for sports news. Great way to compartmentalize and still track various news feeds. Also, it keeps my prime e-mail address reserved for just friends and family.

I use Yahoo for certain services (Flickr, del.icio.us, answers.yahoo.com, Widgets, Groups) and occasionally for news, their homepage, weather, etc. I use Google for web searches, email, and feed reading.

I use Yahoo to search, for mail & IM. It seems that the women in my office go to Yahoo & the men go to Google as their preferred search engines. Very interesting. I have a gmail account but never use it. Too cumbersome or something!?

I love google but hate gmail's default settings. The most frustrating to me is when back-and-forth emails all get combined into the latest message like "Deborah, me (8)" – not so helpful when I am trying to quickly find a random email from a couple weeks back when I know exactly when I sent it... but not when the most recent exchange with that person happened.

I don't use Yahoo! unless I absolutely have to. The messenger is crap, and the parts that work (I'm told) are crap too. The Mac wares are few and VERY far between, so I usually use Adium to connect when I just have to talk to one of my Yahoo! contacts.
The only fear I have with Microsoft running it is that it will become even more horribly partisan than it is when it comes to computing platforms, and equally so with its news reporting (MSNBC, anyone?).

I don't use Yahoo! unless I absolutely have to. The messenger is crap, and the parts that work (I'm told) are crap too. The Mac wares are few and VERY far between, so I usually use Adium to connect when I just have to talk to one of my Yahoo! contacts.The only fear I have with Microsoft running it is that it will become even more horribly partisan than it is when it comes to computing platforms, and equally so with its news reporting (MSNBC, anyone?).

I, too, have had the same Yahoo! e-mail account for eight or ten years. It's set up perfectly so I love it. Yahoo was the first I went to; I used it for everything. Now I usually Google search. I can't say Google is way better though. I have Google Gmail and use it as my spam e-mail. Haha!

I use Y!M - a bit. Other than that, not really. It doesn't really work all that well with Mac and Safari, and when I can get the same experience through other means, why should I pick the one making it difficult. I was also very turned-off by Yahoo's opinions of Macs last year, when their CEO spoke some about it in the media.

My long-time original e-mail address is with Yahoo! so it's still my primary, but I admit otherwise I LOVE google for everything else, from docs, maps, calendar, e-mail, etc. I am sad to see MS take over Yahoo! I had hoped they would stay afloat on their own and keep improving.
Their improvements have not been very good these past few years. I can see why people are not using them anymore. I would not use them except for the e-mail address.